St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-25
DR.. Neill breaches q Practical
Sermon at Dayton Avenue
Union Services. u
Services at Christ Church
We're Conducted by Rev.
c. D. Andrews.
General Observance Of Pill
grim Custom of Holding
Church Services. I
FOUR DANGERS.
The Rev. DIR. Dana's Practical
Talk at the Central Presbyterian
4. Il.

Talk at the Central Presbyterian
Church.
| From pulpit upon which an abun-
dance of fruits was spread as if from a
horn of plenty, symbolic OF the seasons
fruitfulness, DIR. NJ. MEG. Dana, pastor
of the Plymouth Congregational church,
discOurSed Oh Danger Signals at the
Central Presbyterian church, yesterday
morning, to large congregation which
combined the members of the Central
Presbyterian church, Plymouth Con-
! gregational and the First NJ. Z.
churches. Rev. DIR. Maclaren conducted
the devotional portion of the services.
Appropriate to the day the vocal Selec-
tons were God OF the Harvest, Praise"
and a hymn of praise to the air of
America" The decorations of grapes.
evergreenS and cut plants at the pulpit
were the offering of Mrs. 0. j. Reynolds.
A large collection was taken up for the
Relief society.
DIR. Dana'S discourse was practical
! review of the moral and political status
of the United States to-day. He took
his text from the fearless warnings of
the prophet Haggai The four danger
signals of the times are: A lesSening
| of Individual responsibility, a dimin-
ished respect of the law, the effort to
| SeculariZe the American Sabbath, and
the gross mammOniSm of the present
day. Referring to the first DR.. Dana
said:
Our real safety is the sober second
thought of the people. The basis of a
| government like ours is the individual,
! and upon the right use of his faculties
and opportunities depends the public
veal. The sovereignty of the individ-
| 81 -. IN oh nd With ol
hackneyed, but that is owing to the fact
that the individual is largely merged into
some society. All judgment should
! begin in the individual. True democ-
racy is cooperative politics. Every
voter by virtue of the elective franchise
is partner i'll the states business. The
ballot is liberty's sacrament.
DISRESPECT OF LAW.
! Relative to the prevalent diminished
respect for the law he said: I'VE Have
! exhibits every day on a larger OF small
! er scale of law-defying as well as law
| breaking, which eXcites the alarm of
our greatest jurists and publicists. 1t
| seems, too, little strange that side by
| side with growing interest in, and adj
miratiOn for law in all departments of
! physical science, there should be Oh
! served all OminOuS disregard of Statu-
| tory law. To-day society is suffering
from lack of reverence for right and
! obedience to law. With our criminals
increasing faster in proportion than our
population, mOnOpOlieS, capitalists and
powerful organizations VIGOROUSLY and
necessarily hindering the processes of
! legislation for private advantage, it
preSageS a disesteeni for law and law
| making bodies that can but result in
| wider lawlessnesS and civic insubord-
! ination. Municipal ordinances are con-
! spicuouSly violated. Judge Lynch still
| holds his place in our land, and the cal
| endar of crime lengthenS with each
| issue of the daily press. Laws and
/ courts are set at defiance to save from
! Jail such a wealthy criminal as Sharpe of
/ New York. and labor assemblies and
| similar organizations, to sympathize with
anarchists, call in question our
judges, juries and laws. So we pull
down the very tabernacle which has sG
| EMMY been erected for the protection
| of society. The president of Harvard
college cOolly rejOined to one of those
| budding socialists occasionally devel-
Oped in our institutions of learning. who
ventured to remark in self-defense that
he did not approve of certain law:
Sir, we don't expect you to approve of
the law; we expect YOU to obey it," The
revival most needed in this country is
revival of respect for law. Let volun-
I tary principled obedience die out of the
heart of the people and our splendid eX-
pertinent of a free government we make
look to see end i'll disastrous failure.
DynamiterS, anarchists and that ilk
need to feel the strong hand of law,
else we put a premium on conspiracy.
and let free speech be made the hand
maiden of inSurrection and the bandits
! of society defy those reStrainmentS
which are Indispensable if there is to
be any well-ordered stable state.
SABBATH OBSERVANCE. .'
With reference to the tendency to
secularize the Sabbath he said:
The so-called personal Liberty
party in New York has organized to Sc
cure the opening of the saloons on Sun
made legal for saloons to ply their traf-
! fic on the Lords day in California, Col
orado. Nevada. Arizona and Wyoming,
while Ohio and Texas leave the question
to town and city councils. Thus the as
sault upon the American Sabbath has
! begun and the effort TO introduce the
! Sunday of the American continent is
measurably successful. While CONT
mental countries are reacting from this
Sunday holiday, the United States,
under the lead OF demagogueS and the
saloon power, is gravitating fast to-
wards it. This attempt here to secular
ize the Sabbath is the child of two lusts,
the lust of money and the lust of drink.
1t is hog in lions skin and uses the
! word liberty TO cloak cOvetOuSneSS.
Thus to split Sunday in twain,
giving the first half to the Lord and
the second half to the devil, precipi
tates clash between the Bible and the
ale pitcher. 1t spells the book and
hurts the ale pitcher. The Sabbath, as
day of rest from toll, is founded upon
mans physical condition, and TO ignore
its necessities is to sin against God.
There is no such tyranny as the tyranny
of incesSant labor. At present the two
greatest forces against our Christian
Sabbath are the saloon and the base
ball game. 1t surely is pity that our
national game, with so many manly
young fellows enlisted in it. should be-
come a prominent factor in the effort to
annul our Sabbath as rest day. The
wide open policy of any city that per-
mits it, only publishes the decadence of
its moral SENSE and indifference of Off
cials to the laws they have sworn to
maintain. Every effort to secularize
the Sabbath riyetS the collar of toll
more tightly upon the neckS of working
men. l do not see why the seller of
liquor should be allowed to ply his
traffice, and the seller of bread have his
doors closed. The Sabbath observed
as day of rest and worship is the best
school OF liberty.
MANMONISM.
In connection with the mammOniSm
of the present day the reverend doctor
remarked: I'VE have much to fear
from mammonism. There is money in
gambling, hence, it is allowed, though
branded as a bandit trade. There is
money i'll liquor selling, hence the sa-
loon rotates upon every street corner.